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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These values can be estimated credibly and cost-effectively, and we set about applying them to the Brazilian beef sector. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues).

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Why Traditional M&A Is Becoming Less Important

Harvard Business Review

Our own consulting industry is the poster child for this phenomenon.) Tencent has expanded its partnership with JD.com step by step, beginning with an equity investment, moving into data sharing for better customer insight, and then making joint investments totaling more than $6 billion in e-tailer Vipshop and mall operator Wanda Commercial.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. This is a perspective taken by my colleagues at consultancy Innosight.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. Capgemini, a consultancy, estimates that consumers could save up to $16 billion in banking and insurance fees each year through blockchain-based applications.